Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having or displaying street smarts.
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- adjective Having
practical rather thantheoretical knowledge , such as what is learned on the streets rather than in the classroom.
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Examples
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He's been so thoroughly domesticated by his loving owner, Linda Leslie Mann that he studies aerodynamics in his cage, yet continues to walk around their cozy home in Minnesota until a Brazilian ornithologist named Tulio comes out of nowhere and proposes mating him with the street-smart, high-flying Jewel in Rio to save the macaw species.
Animated 'Rio': A Witty Carnival of Brazil Nuts Joe Morgenstern 2011
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"So far, Loker's been sitting in the lab and is not what Lightman considers a very street-smart intellectual," Graziano adds.
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The story centers on a pair of street-smart detectives who encounter Deucalion while investigating a murder, leading them to a bizarre array of “engineered” humans.
Producers Ralph Winter and Terry Botwick to Feed Dean Koontz’s FRANKENSTEIN – Collider.com 2010
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You know what, a lot of people that don't have that are worse off because they're not street-smart.
Cheryl Cole: 'I hate this year' Simon Hattenstone 2010
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Besides having aggressive, street-smart reporters on the ground in various Egyptian cities, Al-Jazeera has the reach to show how popular unrest is spreading to the rest of the Arab world, he said.
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He answered: The recruits may not know how to read, but they are incredibly street-smart.
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A street-smart cop can tell you that a pale angry face is potentially a lot more dangerous than a flushed angry face.
Nicholas Carroll: Occupy Wall Street and the Scent of Revolution Nicholas Carroll 2011
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A uniquely Lubitschian picture in its elegance and graceful wisdom, with the gruffly intelligent, street-smart Hollywood writer and soon-to-be legend Ben Hecht collaborating, this take on the trials, titillations, and torments of a kind of relationship usually seen in true adult films, a ménage à trois and one involving the gorgeous trio of Fredric March, Gary Cooper, and Miriam Hopkins, is unlike any other movie of its era.
Kim Morgan: It Takes Three: Design for Living Kim Morgan 2011
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A street-smart cop can tell you that a pale angry face is potentially a lot more dangerous than a flushed angry face.
Nicholas Carroll: Occupy Wall Street and the Scent of Revolution Nicholas Carroll 2011
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Besides having aggressive, street-smart reporters on the ground in various Egyptian cities, Al-Jazeera has the reach to show how popular unrest is spreading to the rest of the Arab world, he said.
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